bronx zoo by Laura Minning
b r o n x z o o …I feel captive of the world around me, as I glance through my cage (of protection and confinement) and see the passing eyes, and hear the amazed sounds of smiles, I wonder of my fate and destiny. For people accept me as a stuffed fascination, and cage me without consent (of hope or being). Oh to live a life of freedom, that is my ultimate dream. And my friends are in my place (of a caged society) and they wonder of me, as I think of them. For we wish for freedom, and demand to be heard. So when I touch my bars of jail, and see those passing eyes, I feel ashamed. (For it prevents me from forgetting my bored and captive life, and my friends of freedom shelters roam.) For to be free is my painstaking goal, and to run wild is my everlasting dream… ~laura minning excerpt from “sunburst” published by xlibris in may of 2005 Laura Minning began writing creatively at the age...